Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Doña Bárbara - Fri., Jan. 30- DB makes excuses and gives recriminations
Confronted by Cecilia, Melquiades leaves her house without returning the letters. Outside, he says that he has failed DB for the second time.
BP is dumped out of a truck. He has figured out that his captor was the remaining rapist, Sapo. He recognized Sapo from DB's photo. So I guess Sapo wasn't involved in the oil business. It's not clear how Sapo found out about BP or Danger's house.
Eustaquia complains to herself about how her food doesn't turn out right in the kitchen at Altamira. She wishes DB had never brought her there.
Santos tells DB that he was so in love with her that he believed she would change but she is the same. She can't love him because deep down she despises him like all men. She is just a big lie.
Bartolo brings flowers to Altagracia but he is allergic to the garlic they are using to cook.
Santos tells DB that doesn't believe in her anymore and he wants to separate.
Cecilia comes to Altamira and tells Santos that Melquiades was at her house to return her letters, which confirms that DB took them. Santos says that he knew that DB was involved but when he confronted her, she denied it. DB comes in and admits that she took the letter but says that she has the right to know where her daughter is. She says that she found out that Marisela is ok. She has gone abroad because of Santos. Santos says that if she is talking about rights, he has the right to be alone.
Santos gets a telegram that Antonio and Maria Nieves are being released from prison the next morning. He tells Melesio and immediately goes to the capital.
DB accuses Cecilia of trying to separate her from Santos and Cecilia says that DB has done it all herself. DB slaps her.
DB comes into the bedroom where Santos is packing up his stuff. She begs him to stay but he says that he needs to be alone to think and decide what he wants to do.
DB castigates Melquiades for failing to return Cecilia's letters without being caught and for leaving evidence of the blowgun. He says that he didn't fail her. It is the bad luck that is all around them. She humiliates him by saying that he is as big an imbecile as the Mondragon brothers.
Carmelito tells Cecilia that Antonio is going to be released. She tells the baby that he will see his father.
DB has her rape nightmare again. She wakes up screaming and tells Eustaquia that it is the same as always but now she can't see the faces of the men.
Cecilia did keep the property transfer document and Lorenzo's letter in the same unlocked and accesible secretary as Marisela's letters. Fortunately, no one has stolen them. She takes out Lorenzo's letter and reads it. It contains Lorenzo's final request for Marisela. We don't know what it is but Cecilia decides that it is time to share the contents of the letter with Marisela.
DB has devised some plan to get Santos back but we don't know what that is either.
Santos comes to the prison to wait for Antonio and MN to be released. He sees Marisela there. She is in a hat I did not find attractive at all and we still only see her from the neck up.
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Finished another chapter in the novel which doesn't really add anything to understanding the telenovela but is wonderfully well written. It was also quite a challenge, requiring me to look up more words than any other chapter.
It is the chapter describing the round up of cattle that we saw quite early on in the TN. From what I gathered, this roundup of all cattle had been done for generations, and Santos had participated in the past with his father, Jose Luzardo. The big difference pointed out was that it used to have 20 or more hacendados overseeing the project. We are led to understand that DB has taken over nearly all, except for Altamira. The purpose of the roundup is gathering up all the cattle in the region and then dividing them fairly.
Santos is amazed by DB's appearance. When he'd seen her at the Jefatura Civil, she looked angry and masculine. For the roundup, she has on a beautiful outfit, her hair is lovely, her eyes sparkle and she rides sidesaddle!
DB had cornered the market on vaqueros and had more than 30 of hers when they met on the day of the roundup. By the way, this roundup was the one Santos insisted on, threatening DB with taking her before a judge if she refused again as she had done verbally in the Jefatura Civil. She sent Juan Primito to tell Santos she agreed on the very last day of his ultimatum.
DB wanted her men to stampede the cattle and avoid Santos getting any of them. But Antonio cleverly said that they'd work in crews in which there was at least one Altamira vaquero with the 2 or 3 of DB's. That way they couldn't get away with it.
One of the Mondragones, Jaguar, gets off his horse on the pretext of tightening the cinch, clearing a space for a very frisky bull to run out of the circle and perhaps stampede the rest of the cattle. He miscalculates and is trampled into a grease spot for his trouble.
Santos lassoes the huge bull long enough for Carmelito and Pajarote to get to him and also lasso the bull. DB approaches and tells Santos: llanero es llanero hasta la quinta generación, which is to say he'll always be a man of the plains and hasn't lost his touch. It is obvious to the vaqueros of both El Miedo and Altamira that DB is interested in Santos as a man.
I've been really surprised at Lucia's aggression. At first, I thought she was going to be one of the 'good' girls. Now she's one of the girls with a mission to 'make' some man 'love' her...
jb
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